- Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User's Guide (February 2003)

54 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003
■ Then you had to get the link status:
Starting with the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter in the Solarlis 9 operating
environment this method of determining the link status is discouraged, and in some
cases, it is removed completely as a driver feature.
The new improved approach moves all read-only parameters from the ndd options
into kstat. This simplifies getting link status information by allowing you to do it
with one simple command.
● To get the link status of a driver, type the following command:
where n=instance.
For more information about the kstat command, refer the kstat man page
GigaSwift Ethernet Driver Operating
Statistics
These statistics are part of the statistics presented by the netstat -k command.
# ndd -get /dev/hme link-status
1
# kstat ce:n | grep link_up
link_up 0